"There’s a reason why Republican politicians like Donald Trump, failed Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie, and credibly accused child molester and failed Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore hate the idea of felony voting rights — they know it portends bad things for them politically. "The upshot? The left in general and the Democratic Party in particular needs to make the reversal of felon disenfranchisement a priority, now. It’s the smart thing to do politically, and it’s the right thing to do ethically."

German security researcher Sabri Haddouche has discovered a set of vulnerabilities that he collectively refers to as Mailsploit, and which allow an attacker to spoof email identities, and in some cases, run malicious code on the user's computer.

"This report offers some much needed clarity by piecing together this country’s disparate systems of confinement. The American criminal justice system holds more than 2.3 million people in 1,719 state prisons, 102 federal prisons, 901 juvenile correctional facilities, 3,163 local jails, and 76 Indian Country jails as well as in military prisons, immigration detention facilities, civil commitment centers, and prisons in the U.S. territories. And we go deeper to provide further detail on why people are locked up in all of those different types of facilities."

In 2016, black women were 49 percent more likely to deliver preterm than white women; American Indian and Native Alaskan women were 18 percent more likely than whites to give birth prematurely. “In many communities of color, there are inequities with respect to health care, housing, jobs, food security — lots of things that put enormous stress on families and especially on pregnant moms,” said Stacey Stewart, president of the March of Dimes.... “If you look at the history of redlining in the U.S,” she said, “it’s not by accident that there are certain neighborhoods with higher concentrations of poverty and that those neighborhoods have higher concentrations of people with color. Those are the folks that are suffering from these adverse birth outcomes.”

Soup is a true wonder of alchemy. Together, water, onions and time turn water into broth, bland into savory and thin into thick. But for those results, process is critical: The finest soups layer flavors every step of the way. We will teach you about soup’s building blocks, then walk you through combining them with a basic recipe that will help you transform practically any ingredient into a simple, satisfying meal.